Olivier Koch

Machine learning and computer vision in the real world

I lead the machine learning and MLOps teams at Onfido. We use computer vision and machine learning for online identity verification. From 2015 to 2021, I led the machine learning team for recommendation at Criteo, where we transformed the recommendation engine using a lightweight encoder-decoder architecture. From 2010 to 2014, I led the computer vision team at Thales Optronics in France.

I graduated with a PhD at MIT in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Seth Teller. I was a core member the MIT team at the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007. My work was published at CVPR, ICCV, ICRA and IJFR. I am a reviewer for NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR.

Blog

also on Medium

Featured talks

  • 2023, June 21st (upcoming): An introduction to ChatGPT and generative AI, Point Nine CTO Meetup, Paris
  • 2023, March 30th: ChatGPT: have we crossed the Rubicon? Invited talk at BPCE DigiPay Tech+ Event
  • 2022, IFTTD podcast: Large-scale AI (in french), youtube video
  • 2020, Job interview talk at Onfido, Scalable representation learning and retrieval for online advertising
  • 2018, 7th RecSys London Meetup, Acquisition: Recommending Products From a Retailer That the User Never Visited Before
  • 2017, Criteo RecSys London, Product recommendation beyond collaborative filtering, welcome to the twilight zone!
  • 2016, ICML: Online Advertising Systems Workshop, New challenges for scalable machine learning in online advertising
  • Oct 2014, ICIP, Image and Video Processing for Defense, Transportation, Homeland Security, and Observation from Space: Industrial Expectations and Technological Challenges

Publications

also on Google scholar

Misc.

  • In 2019, I taught at M2 level at Paris Dauphine University with Criteo, IASD
  • I co-founded Reveal, the RecSys workshop for causal recommendation with Microsoft, Netflix and Cornell University. The workshop ran from 2018 to 2020 and now continues as the Consequences workshop.
  • Here is a list of book recommendations for tech leaders.